The total amount of firepower used to flood Sony websites this week? It's only "medium strength," says a source at Sony's hosting provider who is not authorized by his employer to speak on the record.
The hacker collective Anonymous has been hammering Sony all week—both online and off—over the company's lawsuit against PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz ("GeoHot"). The online attacks have largely used the Anonymous tool of choice, the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), to flood Sony's servers with enough information to create a distributed denial of service attack. LOIC was built as a network stress-testing tool but has been repurposed by Anonymous to create voluntary botnets in which Anons contribute bandwidth to take down a shared target.
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